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  • image SM Adam volume 46/51

Reference number

SM Adam volume 46/51

Purpose

[4] Finished drawing for a house showing the rear elevation, ND, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of the rear front of a three-storey, four-bay house with a hipped roof, with a three-storey projecting wing to the left-hand side shown in section. The other three bays of the house contain a door within a relieving arch, a bow of three arched windows surmounted by a balustraded balcony, and a carriage arch on the ground storey. There is a string course between the ground and first storey, with full-height windows on the first storey, and half-height windows on the second storey

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Elevation de la Maison vers la basse cour / 15th (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1758-94
    ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and pink and yellow wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (271 x 374)

Hand

Adam office hand

Watermark

IV

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 53
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 135
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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